2025-08-10, 11:27 PM - Word count:
This is an exploration of stats for the limited performances by Grimace in the Academy matches as compared to the players at his same position. Players included are Jóse Días and the "Legends" on the field.
Firstly because Grimace has only had 4 appearances we had to adjust the stats to an average to balance out the other players to a level playing field.
Next the averages of each category were ranked within themselves and then eventually tallied/averaged to provide the player's total average rank across all available categories.
Categories such as fouls were removed as they aren't as consistent a behaviour and were too much work to reverse the rankings.
PLAYER AVG RANK
Legend Gerald Gerrard 5.86
Legend Jay Bryzski 6.18
Legend Linnea Nesse 7.04
Jóse Días 7.50
Legend Hun Possible 8.04
Legend Vins Vins 8.07
Legend Sydney Ramirez 8.21
Legend Adam Knight 8.39
Legend Yannick Visser 8.57
Legend Deedee Yoker 8.71
Legend Tom Pedersen 8.71
Legend Ask Jeeves 8.79
Legend Leif Physt 8.82
Legend Jökull Júlíusson 9.21
Legend George Costanza 9.36
Legend Felix Arasov 9.43
Grimace 10.79
Grimace's top category groupings:
Headers
Interceptions
Grimace's bottom category groupings:
Passes
Blocks
Jóse Días' top category groupings:
Passes
Headers
Jóse Días' bottom category groupings:
Crosses
Tackles
To make sense of the discrepancies here we have to assume that Jóse and Grimace are building different playstyles and while the numbers suggest Jóse is at a strong advantage... actually there's no way to defend Grimace here, Días is just better at this point.
Does this mean Grimace is an embarrassment and will have zero success in the SSL. Probably. Let's find out next season!
Firstly because Grimace has only had 4 appearances we had to adjust the stats to an average to balance out the other players to a level playing field.
Next the averages of each category were ranked within themselves and then eventually tallied/averaged to provide the player's total average rank across all available categories.
Categories such as fouls were removed as they aren't as consistent a behaviour and were too much work to reverse the rankings.
PLAYER AVG RANK
Legend Gerald Gerrard 5.86
Legend Jay Bryzski 6.18
Legend Linnea Nesse 7.04
Jóse Días 7.50
Legend Hun Possible 8.04
Legend Vins Vins 8.07
Legend Sydney Ramirez 8.21
Legend Adam Knight 8.39
Legend Yannick Visser 8.57
Legend Deedee Yoker 8.71
Legend Tom Pedersen 8.71
Legend Ask Jeeves 8.79
Legend Leif Physt 8.82
Legend Jökull Júlíusson 9.21
Legend George Costanza 9.36
Legend Felix Arasov 9.43
Grimace 10.79
Grimace's top category groupings:
Headers
Interceptions
Grimace's bottom category groupings:
Passes
Blocks
Jóse Días' top category groupings:
Passes
Headers
Jóse Días' bottom category groupings:
Crosses
Tackles
To make sense of the discrepancies here we have to assume that Jóse and Grimace are building different playstyles and while the numbers suggest Jóse is at a strong advantage... actually there's no way to defend Grimace here, Días is just better at this point.
Does this mean Grimace is an embarrassment and will have zero success in the SSL. Probably. Let's find out next season!
